A brief verse that has
always been recited at the Zen Center goes like this:

Great robe of liberation /
Field far beyond form and emptiness /Wearing Buddha's teaching / Saving all
beings.

In the early sixties this
was chanted only in Japanese. No one knew what it meant. One day a student went
to Suzuki Roshi and asked, "What’s the meaning of that chant we do right after
zazen?" Suzuki said, "I don't know." Katagiri Sensei, his assistant teacher,
started going through the drawers looking for a translation. Suzuki gestured to
him to stop. Then he turned to the student, pointed to his heart, and said,
"It's love."